Four coaches,checked twice.

Rae Okafor coached strength for a college track and field team for six years before she opened Ironhouse on 30th Street in 2019. She runs Athlete and the Saturday Strength Club, and she writes every program on the board. Her rule for the floor: nobody adds weight until the last set looks like the first.

She holds the NSCA's CSCS and USA Weightlifting's Level 2 coaching licence, and she still competes in masters weightlifting.

Marcus Delgado spent ten years in big-box gyms watching people wander between machines. At Ironhouse he runs Strength Club and Foundations, the four weeks where most members learn to squat. He keeps a paper log for every lifter and reads it before each class, so he knows what you lifted last Tuesday.

He is a CSCS and a Starting Strength Coach, a credential that ends with a practical evaluation on the platform.

Dana Whitfield treated runners and desk workers in a Hillcrest clinic for twelve years. Strong at 40+ is the class she wanted to send patients to after they were discharged. In class she coaches: she adapts the lifts, and she tells you plainly when something needs a clinician instead.

She is a Doctor of Physical Therapy licensed in California and a CSCS. Coaching at Ironhouse is not physical therapy and is not billed to insurance.

Leo Tran runs Recomp: strength first, then fifteen minutes on the sled, the rower or the bike. He keeps food simple too: protein at every meal, a daily step count, and one change at a time, checked at your four-week review.

He is an NSCA Certified Personal Trainer, holds USA Weightlifting Level 1 and Precision Nutrition Level 1. He gives general nutrition coaching, not meal plans for medical conditions.